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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-10 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leo hesitates only a second longer before he scoots closer, uncurling as he goes. He leans into Huvrye, sliding one arm around him.

He feels a little awkward doing this, but man, he hasn't had a hug in over a month. It's weird to think about, with how touchy-feely (most of) his family is.

He feels like, by accepting this, he's dooming himself to Talking, but he is slowly resigning himself to it. Besides, he wants this, so he's taking it.]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-10 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leo didn't realize how much he needed this until it's happening. The edges of the nightmare recede, and the last of the tightness in his chest eases with it.

He's not stuck in the prison dimension. He's stuck somewhere else, but this place isn't so scary. He's okay, mostly. He's safe.

He lets it last a few minutes, then pulls back. Wiggles out of Huvrye's hold, but doesn't leave his spot on the couch.]


...Thanks.

[His eyes are shiny, but he isn't crying. He reaches for the blanket again and covers himself in it, before sighing.]

Okay. Ask your questions.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oof. It’s not the hardest to answer question, but it’s still not something he wants to admit to.]

Oh, well, you know…

[He wants to stall, but he doesn’t have a way to escape that direct a question without lying.]

Proooobably… back before I came here?
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[It's fine. It's so fine. He's like the reigning insomnia champ! And besides, it's not like he gets no sleep, it's just not good and not nightly.]

Something before that. Things back in my world... kinda went sideways. Right before I came here.

[That's one way of putting it.]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo listens, eyes on his lap. Huvrye says he's had nightmares like this too, so he must get it - why Leo doesn't want to sleep, at least not sleep so deeply that he dreams, because whenever he dreams it always ends the same.

Part of him wants to give in to that, to tell someone and maybe actually have one good night of sleep. Another part thinks that this is his punishment for being such a colossal screwup that he very nearly ended the world.

Part of him doesn't want Huvrye to know he's that much of a screwup.

But he thinks he also isn't being given a whole lot of choice here.]


...Well... I mean, if you want to know my tragic backstory so badly I guess I can tell you.

[He says it with overdramatic flair. Like this is just a joke. Like it's not that serious. Maybe that's how he can play this: get it off his chest, while making it sound like it's nothing really to worry about. Yeah, that'll work.

(He knows it won't work.)]


It's... a lot to explain, though... I'm not sure where to start.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo takes a deep breath. Lets it out slow. Okay. He can do this.]

So, uh... there's these... aliens, called the Krang. Their whole deal is that they go around to different planets and destroy whatever civilization is there, and then they... well, I don't know what they do next. Strip mine for minerals, maybe? Pretty cliché MO, if you ask me.

[He says all this lightly, but Huvrye may notice that when Leo says the word Krang, he stiffens up.]

Anyway, they showed up to Earth centuries before I was born, and some mystic - uh, magic warriors locked them up in a thing called the Prison Dimension. Kind of like how this place is a different dimension from both of ours? Except the Prison Dimension isn't populated, it's... [Cold, desolate, ruined, smells like rust and rot-] a prison.

And for whatever reason no one ever destroyed the key, so... someone tried to steal it.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Don't ask me why, some people are just crazy.

[He has no idea what the Foot Clan's obsession with unleashing horrors on the world is, all he knows is that his family keeps having to deal with it.]

But that's... they wouldn't have even had the key, except I...

[He shivers. Pulls his knees up close and props his head on them.]

I was acting stupid. Being a show-off. My older brother, he grabbed the key and I knocked it right out of his hands. Sent it flying right to the enemy.

[He curls up tighter, and he wants to stop, but he's on a roll now.]

Then this guy shows up from the future, and tells me hey, great job idiot, you doomed the whole planet and your family with it! [Casey hadn't worded it like that, of course. But Leo's head did it for him.] So we tried to stop them before they could let the Krang out, but I was... cocky, and stupid, and my big brother had to save me, and they... they turned him into this thing. Infected him with some kind of goo, and they had control of him.

I... was supposed to be the leader, and I just kept screwing up, and everyone got hurt. Especially him. That was... that was on me.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[No, he doesn't want that. He doesn't want sympathy. He screwed up. He knows it.

He doesn't pull away, though.]


It... it ended up okay, though. We got him back. And... we couldn't beat the Krang, but we found a way to stop them.

I... made sure they were safe. So... so it's okay.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
…The Krang couldn’t be fought. They had to be imprisoned again.

So I kinda, uh… [He looks nervous to admit it.] teleported myself and the Krang back into the Prison Dimension. And I held him there.

And then I had them close the door.

[And then, because he can feel himself zoning out, feel the dark corners of the room pressing in on him, he reaches for his most used coping mechanism.]

It was pretty cool, actually. Big explosion. I even got to drop my new catchphrase. “You’ve been portal-chopped.”
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Just a few minutes, I think. Long enough for it to wipe the floor with me, I’ll tell you that.

[He shivers under Huvrye’s arm, contradicting his light tone.]

If it hadn’t been for the Alliance healers I’d still be one giant bruise right now.

[Does that answer his question?]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-11 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leo goes stiff at that, the tension obvious in the set of his shoulders.

He didn’t deserve it?]


But that’s… that’s the thing. I don’t think you get it, but I really, really messed up. [Two reallys.] Everyone died. My brothers died. The whole population of earth died!

[He’s getting really worked up now. But he needs someone to understand. Someone to get how much he did deserve it.

Someone to validate how much he hates himself.]


The only way to avert that was to give up myself and I’d do it again to save them. I’d do it again to fix everything.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-12 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo shivers against his arm again. Turns what Huvrye is saying over in his head. It doesn't all penetrate, because these walls have been up for a long time, far before he even learned about the Krang, but at the very least, the firm tone helps bring him down, just a little.]

...Well, I was being a jerk on purpose.

[Yeah, obviously he didn't want anything to happen to his family or the world. So that part's true. And maybe being a jerk isn't an offense punishable by torture. At least, he wouldn't say so if it were anyone other than him on the chopping block.

But it's still hard to believe he didn't bring this on himself.]


So at the very least, it had to be me, if it was going to be anyone.
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-02-12 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo hesitates. If he says yes, he's pretty sure Huvrye won't like that.]

...Maybe not, uh... all this part...

[He waves to indicate the hotel. Or rather, the entire "trapped by the confluence" situation.]

And maybe not... the other thing. [The Prison Dimension.] It's not like the universe conspired to teach me a lesson. [It's not about him. He does know sometimes things just happen.]

But... I guess I feel like I made it up to all of them, by doing that. Paid my dues, or something.

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